When life gives you lemons...

Everyone has weird stories about when they were a little kid. Right? Getting your tongue stuck to a frozen pole. Eating butter straight. Wearing shoes shaped like frogs. Eating an entire cake. Killing a fish. Drinking Windex. So, basically, all little kids are known to be weird, odd, zany, in some way. For instance, when I was a little kid...

• I ate lemons slices, the kind you get on the side of your water glass at restaurants, rind and all.

• I crawled after my poor evil cat named Elliot shouting "Ayeeyee!" and trying to pull his tail because I could not prounounce Elliot or get him to play with me.

• I insisted on having an Ariel-themed birthday party to the point where my mother had to get a red-haired Barbie doll and put her in the cake, and have the cake people put a frosting tail on her. A few months later, Ariel Barbie dolls-with tails-were available everywhere. Inescapable.

• ...I got one of those, too, eventually.
• I hobbled around in a mermaid tail costume trying to be Ariel and not walk like a normal human, probably resulting in looking like some kind of poor snake or worm spazzing out on the floor.

• I insisted on playing Spy with my Barbies instead of Prom...the Corvette was the getaway car, the house was headquarters, and the hotel was the evil guy's lair.

• I didn't have any idea how to do my first ballet recital without the tape on the floor that marks where your feet are supposed to go...

• ...I proceeded to ruin it by following the teacher around for the duration of the recital, shreiking, "Where's my tape?!???" and someone really should have gotten it on video because I'm positive it was hilarious.
• I was obsessed with a French-Japanese cartoon syndicated into American television called Code Lyoko, about kids fighting an evil super computer named Xana, and I watched every single episode, played the theme song in three different languages and five different versions and made up dances to all of them constantly, and named all of my stuffed animals after the characters.

Needless to say, my childhood was interesting, to say the least. I never know how to end these posts, so here's a picture of Code Lyoko: